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* According to Psychology Today Beethoven’s was the highest IQ of any known person in history

* Beethoven suffered hearing loss – modern medicine could have easily cured it

* Students who study a band orchestra instrument in high school have an extraordinary high rate of college success

Hmmm …

1) I can’t find a source for the high IQ. I found one source that states his IQ may have fallen between 125 and 155, and another that says it was 165. But I couldn’t find a source saying it was the highest ever. Maybe my IQ is too low and I’m unable to locate that information because of that?

2) I suffer hearing loss. Modern medicine can’t cure it. Rats. Maybe this is because of my lower IQ?

3) I’m still trying to figure out what a “band orchestra” is. Must be my stupid low IQ.

;-)

The same website talks about the recently discovered Beethoven Oboe Concerto snippet and says that it

“includes an unusually high (and difficult) oboe note; in fact it would have been nearly impossible for oboists in Beethoven’s day to accomplish.”

What note would that be? Mozart wrote a high F, so I’m assuming the Beethoven must go higher. Do tell!

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Musician John Woods-Wahl says robots aren’t replacing humans, but that he thinks of them as instruments that can make sounds humans can’t. Tyler Yamin has been working on a robot to play in a Gamelan, an Indonesian musical ensemble that includes gongs, flutes and metal drums.

“Normally, one person would play two or three pots at a time with two sticks,” he says. “But instead of having a robot with two arms, I’m going to have a robot with seven arms.”